RAUL PALMA is a second-generation Cuban American born and raised in Miami. His collection, In This World of Ultraviolet Light: Stories, won the 2021 Don Belton Prize. His writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction at New York’s Ithaca College, where he is the associate dean of faculty in the School of Humanities and Sciences. A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens is his debut novel.